Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 21065, Ebenezer Ellis, Continental Mass

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental Mass
Ellis, Ebenezer Barnah
W. 21065
CONTENTS

9530
Massachusetts
Ebenezer Ellis, —
of Bridgewater in the state of Mass — who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Reed of the Mass ★ line, for the term of one year
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 1 st of April, 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 th of Apr r 1819 and sent to Nahum Mitchell Esq. East Bridgewater, Mass
Arrears to 4th of Mar 1819 — 4/31. 89.03 Semi-ann. all ce ending 4 th Sept 1819 48.00
$137:03
due 2 nd Nov 1820
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued
★ Mass ★ Continental Oct. 11, 1904 Records completed.
Historical Park Office 18. 1820 To John D. Thomas, Plymouth, Mass.

Massachusetts 883
Hannah Ellis widow of Ebenezer Ellis decd.
who died on the 28 November 1820 in Plymouth in the State of Mass. who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain _____ of the Regt. commanded by Col. Reed in the Mass. ★ for 20 months & 27 days
★ Mass. Adj. Continental. Records completed. Oct. 11/04.
Enscribed on the Roll of Mass. the rate of 69 Dollars - 67 - Cents per annum, commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 19 th day of May 1837 and sent S. H. O. Lord Plymouth Ms.
arrears to the 4th of March 1837 $418.02 Pemi-ant. allowance ending 4 Sept. " 34.83
$452.85
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3. }
Recorded by H. H. Addison Clerk, Book 4. Vol. 1. Page 49

Ebenezer Ellis Bridgewater Ms
Adm c — 1 —
1 af in Reads' Ref. - 1776.

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
ss. On this first day of April 1818, before me the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Southern Circuit, personally appeared Ebenezer Ellis of Bridgewater aged sixty six years, resident in the said Circuit, who being by me first duly cautioned according to law, on his oath made the following declaration, by him signed, in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," viz. / see his declaration enclosed / and also Captain Oliver Soper's affidavit in Nidebiah Lincoln's case /
And Nidebiah Lincoln, a credible Witness, personally appeared before me the said Judge, and made solemn oath that the above named Ebenezer Ellis served the 8 months in 1775 and all of the year 1776 as he has stated in his declaration, and was a sergeant in Capt. Soper's Compa- ny during the whole of the year 1776 notwithstanding the Warrant exhibited

by the said Ellis bears date the last day of the year, when he was discharged; and that the warrant officers often, if not generally, had no written warrant till a long time after they were appointed - that he the said Lincoln served during both terms in the same Company. —
And I, the said Judge, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said Ebenezer Ellis did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months, on the continental establishment; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress, & that he is poor & needs the assistance of his country for support —
Nahum Mitchell
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
ss.
1818.
I HEREBY CERTIFY, That is one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Southern Circuit, consisting of the Counties of Plymouth, Norfolk, Bristol, Barnstable, Dukes and Nantucket in said Commonwealth—that the same Circuit Court of Common Pleas is a Court of record—that the signature to the above certificate is the true signature of the said Judge, and that the seal thereunto affixed is the seal of the said Court.
} Clerk of the Judicial Court for the County of

Ebenezer Ellis
9530
April 1809
Am
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
SECRETARY

SCHEDULE.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
County of Plymouth ss.
Ellis
On this Twentieth day of July 1820, before the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Southern Circuit, proceeding according to the course of the common law with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, having a power also of fine and imprisonment, and keeping a record of their proceedings, personally appeared in open Court, being a court of record for the said County Ebenezer Ellis for having the care of Ebenezer aged sixty eight years, resident in Bridgewater in said County, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he was in the Revolutionary war as follows, viz. for the term of
and that he has received a pension certificate dated 20th April 1819. and numbered 9530 - in pursuance of his original Declaration made 1 April 1818.
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 28th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary war," passed on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property, or securities, contracts, or debts, due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.
The said Ebenezer Ellis further States that his father the said Ebenezer Ellis has a wife aged sixty four years that the following schedule embraces all his property that he has chiefly supported his father & mother of late years, he has been insane for about a month part of the time. Schedule H. 600 chairs 2 tables chest of drawers 12.75. Told chest, pieces iron ware - 1 prongh Ebenezer Ellis Jr.
Sworn to, and declared, on the twentieth day of July AD 1820 before Nathan Mitchell Justice of Court.
I, John B Thomas clerk of said Court do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is twelve dollars and seventy five cents. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said court, on this twenty first day of July 1820.
John B Thomas Clerk of the Court for the County of Plymouth

Commonwealth of Massachusetts County of Plymouth ss.
On this sixth day of October in the year eighteen hundred and thirty six personally appeared before me Wilkin Wood Judge of the Court of Probate within and for the County of Plymouth Hannah Ellis a resident of Middleborough in the County of Plymouth aforesaid aged eighty two years who first being sworn according to Law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July the 4 th 1836.
That she is the widow of Ebenezer Ellis who was a private soldier in the American army of the Revolution and enlisted into the said army several times and served during several campaigns in that service and under one of his enlistments he was stationed for a considerable time at West-point in the State of New York after my marriage with him and was in said service several times both before and after our said marriage which will more fully appear by his declaration and the accompanying documents made for the purpose of obtaining a pension under the act of Congress of 1818. and now supposed to be in the War office. That my said husband obtained a pension which he drew so long as he lived.
She further states that she was married to the said Ebenezer Ellis on the twentieth day of November in the year seventeen hundred & seventy seven that her husband the aforesaid Ebenezer Ellis died on the twenty day of November eighth in the year eighteen hundred and twenty in the Town of Bridgewater in the County of Plymouth aforesaid and that she has remained a widow ever since that period as will more fully appear by the proofs hereto annexed. N. B. The words "day of November" were interlined before the signing hereof.
for Hannah Ellis mark
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year above our

above written before me: And I further certify that the above named Hannah Ellis is a credible person & whose word & declaration are entitled to full faith credit and that bodily health and strength are such that she cannot leave her house with safety.
Wilkes Wood Judge of the Court of Probate for the County of Plymouth Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Plymouth. I Jacob H. Lord Register of Probate for said County do hereby certify that Wilkes Wood Esq is Judge of Probate for said County & that the above is his true & proper signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of the Probate Court for said County this eighteenth day of October A.D. 1836. Jacob H. Lord
No. 403 Declaration of
3 Dec. Hannah Ellis
20 June 1835 - 43
75 Notes - interest 26 June - tot 15. 4. 9 - 6. 10. 27
76 _____ 12. _____
81 Notes tot 17. 4. 86. 2. 17 20. 27. _____
private - the above account dated at time of death
Attn: D no. 27 - 20. 27. -
the case - no objection died in 1820.
J. H. Lord Esq Plymouth Mass
66. 67 3. 00 69. 67 418. 02

ELLIS, EBENEZER (CONT. MASS.)
W-21065

Rec d New York Aug t 23. 1776 from Lieut d Ebenezer Ellis the Sum of Five Dollars. it being in full for my Services for medicines & attendance during his Illness at Mr Job's, Albertus Vandewater
Rec d New York Sept 4. 1776 of Mr Ebenezer Ellis the Sum of eighteen Shillings in full for House Room & Sundry Articles while Sick
Yme Timothy Job

Ebenezer Ellis Mass. and Continental W. F 21065

By Joseph Read Colonel of the 13 th Regiment of Foot. Given by order of the Honorable the Continental Congress of the Thirteen United States of America To Ebenezer Ellis Greeting — By Virtue of the Power and Authority given to me by the Honorable the Continental Congress afore- said. Reposing especial Confidence in your Courage and good Conduct. Do by these Presents constitute and appoint you the said Ebenezer Ellis to be a 3 rd serjeant in the 13 th Regiment of Foot now under my Command — you are therefore to discharge the Duty of a 3 rd serjeant in a Company of said Regiment Commanded by Capt. Oliver Tupper and Carefully and Diligently to Observe and obey all such orders as you shall from time to time receive from your Supe- riour Officers and you are to be faithfull in all Duty put to you as a 3 rd serjeant. Whereof this shall be your sufficient Warrant. Given Under my Hand this 30 Day of December 1776 —
Joseph Read } Colonel.

POSTAL CARD - ONE CENT
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
THIS SIDE IS FOR THE ADDRESS ONLY
O. W. & N. DIVISION JUL 10 1902 RECEIVED
To the Commissioner of Pensions Washington D. C.

Whitman, Mass, July 8 th 1897
Dear Sir, Return this Card
Will you please re- me by return mail if possible the pension papers of Mrs Hannah Ellis , wife of that of Benjamin Ellis , of Middlesex, Mass.
I also note you some time since in reference to the pension of Hannah Loring of Pembroke Mass & that,
Both of these ladies are anxious to complete their record for the D.A.R.
Concludes yours Whitman Mass Mrs L. B. Haskell

Ref
WIDOW, &c.
July - 26 - 190 Mrs. L. B. Katch Whitman Mass
File No. 21,065
Hannah Ellis widow of Ebenezer Ellis Pri. Rev War
Act: July 4 th 86
Box: - Vol. 24 , Page 218
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Massachusetts Hannah Ellis, widow of Ebenezer Ship o . See letter to J. H. Lord 16. Nov. 1838

To what time was Eben Ellis of Plymouth Co.
Map. paid under Act Mar. 1818
Discontinued the 31 July 1820
IH
RH
27 May

21065 Ebenezer Ellis
Apr. 1, 1818 - 66
Bridgewater Mass
June 75 - - Mass.
Capt Josiah King
Col David Brewer
Dec. 8 Mass.
Stn Roxbury -
76 Capt Oliver Soper
Col Jas. Reed
Sgt - 17yr
wid dff - Oct 6-1886
Middleboro Mass - 82
mn Hannah Wood
Nov. 17, 1777 - Middleboro Mass
d. Nov. 28, 1820, Bridgewater Mass
Sergt warrant on file
with Ethan Norcut Mass. "
No Bat
am

3-416. (Old No. 3-526.)
O. W. and N. Div. _____ Division.
Department of the Interior,
 BUREAU OF PENSIONS, 
Washington, D. C.-----, 190____
No. Claim, _____
Cert. No. _____
Claimant, _____
Soldier, -----
Co. _____, _____ Reg't _____
Respectfully _____
Chief of _____ Division.

Deposition of Ephraim Noreut

I, Ephraim Norcut of Middleborough in the County of Plymouth & Commonwealth of Massachusetts aged seventy eight years testify and say that in the year seventeen hundred and eighty one if I remember the year right I enlisted as a Soldier in the Revolutionary war and into a Company commanded by Captain Becknell of this County and marched with said Company for West-point in the State of New York in the month of September, according to the best of my recollection, and when arrived at West-point we were under General McDougal. And I with the said Company served out the said three months there the term for which the said Company enlisted And I well remember that Ebenezer Ellis then of said Middleborough but now deceased, with whom I was then well acquainted & until his death, was a Soldier, a private, in said Company enlisted & marched at the time I did: and was in said service at said West point until within about a week of its expiration; when being unwell he obtained a discharge and returned home. I was also well acquainted with said Ellis's wife before she was married as well as since and until the present time, who is now a widow
Dec. 3 1836
Ephraim Norcut
I the above named Ephraim Norcut further state as to the time of the above service I am certain that it was in the same year in which General Cornwallis surrendered his army to the American armies. and we had a day of great rejoicing on that occasion.
Ephraim Norcut
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Plymouth ss. December 3. 1836 Personally appeared Ephraim Norcut and subscribed and made oath to the above affidavits before me and I further certify that the said Ephraim Norcut is a man well known to me and is a man of truth & veracity. Wilkes Wood Justice of the Peace

Plymouth J. P. Jacob H Loud Register of Probate for said County do hereby certify that Willes Wood Esquire is a Justice of the Peace in & for said County & that the within is his true & genuine signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of the Probate Court for said County this ninth day of December 1836
Jacob H Loud

Hannah Ellis
Dec 14.
No 20
map 403
4 July 36.
add post
James
L. Edwards Esq Commr of Pensions City of Washington D.C.

Plymouth Mass
Dec 9. 1836
Sir
You addressed me a line a short time ago in relation to the claim of Hannah Ellis the Widow of Ebenezer Ellis in which you state that she does not prove any service since the Marriage.
Judge Wood has sent me the enclosed Deposition with a request that I would forward the same to you. He says this deposition of Vincent proves a service since the Marriage.
Yours &c
J. H. Lord
J. L. Edwards Esq Com. of Pensions Washington D. C.

Hannah Ellis
May
188
Middleboro's Mass Free
Hon. N. B. Borden
Member of Congress
City of Washington
11 Files
Case Mrs Ellis

Dear Sir — Middlesex Co. 4. Feb 1837
A Mr Elbert Ellis of our Town named to me today that through Judge Wood he forwarded the papers of his mother the widow of Elbert Ellis to entitle her to a pension — he says this was done some 3 mo since — he wishes you to have the good news to enquire into the same with a view of forwarding this project of his mother if there is any informality in the papers or any want of evidence more than has been forwarded can be furnished Mr E. believes enough has been done they were to insure it already but says since forwarding the last testimony he has found more proof to the point that is required should you write on this subject you may direct to me
Very respectfully
Yours
Mr Barden
Peter H. Paine

Ebenezer Ellis Bridgewater

I Ebenezer Ellis of Bridgewater in the County of Plymouth an Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the sixty seventh year of my age depose testify set forth and declare that I was a soldier in the war of the Revolution with Great Britain on the continental establishment and that I enlisted in June 1775 into Capt Josiah Kings Company and Col David Brewers Regiment and Massachusetts line and served eight  six months at Roxbury near Boston. And afterwards in 1776 I enlisted into Capt Oliver Soper company and Col Joseph Reed Regiment and marched to New York and continued in the same line one year which time I served as a sergeant and afterwards served a few short campaigns at Rhode Island and at Westpoint which time I served faithfully and was Honorably discharged which discharge I have in my possession
Ebenezer Ellis;
Sworn to April 1. 1818
N.M.

Commonwealth of } Town of Middleborough Massachusetts } Mass October 7 th 1836
For Allen Shaw do on Oath declare that I am Town Clerk of the Town of Middleborough County of Plymouth State of Massachusetts & that I have the custody of the Records of said Town, that it appears by said Records that Mr Ebenezer Ellis & Miss Hannah Wood both of Middleborough were Married by Rev. Solomon Reed November 20 th 1777
Allen Shaw Town Clerk
Commonwealth of Massachusetts County of Plymouth ss October 7 th 1836.
Personally appeared Allen Shaw a man well known to me and is a man of truth and veracity and made and subscribed the above affidavit on his solemn oath.
Before me Wilson Wood Justice of Peace
(Signature)

I Joseph Clark of Middleborough County of Plymouth & State of Massachusetts, Physician, aged eighty years, depose and say, that I was well acquainted with Ebenezer Ellis late of Bridgewater in the County aforesaid deceased a Revolutionary Pensioner was his family Physician and visited him the day previous to his death. said Ellis was a native of Middleborough aforesaid and I personally knew him while he was an apprentice Boy and from that time to the time of his death. I am also acquainted with his Widow who now resides in said Middleborough and who was his wife and only wife: her name was Hannah Wood & resided in Middleborough previous to her marriage to said Ellis: and was his wife during the Revolutionary War; and is now applying to be admitted as a Pensioner under the act of Congress of July the 4 th 1836. Joseph Clark
Middleborough October 17 th 1836 Personally appeared Joseph Clark a man well known to me and is a credible person and made oath to the above affidavit and subscribed in the same Before me William Wood Justice of the Peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Plymouth ss. I Jacob H. Lord Register of Probate for said County do hereby certify that William Wood Esq. is a Justice of the Peace in & for said County & that the signatures to this & the annexed affidavit purporting to be signed by him are his true and genuine signatures.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of the Probate Court for said County this eighteenth day of October A.D. 1836
Jacob H. Lord

Plymouth, Oct 24 th , 1836. By virtue of this receipt I have taken the body of the within named George H. Gordon and committed him to the ground in Plymouth.
Isaac Comstock  Johnson  Shanahan  Alsted
For Service 1.50 Wood 20 cts 80 Wood Wagon 2 cts 33 $4.33
No. 403
Hannah Ellis mother of Ebenizer Mass
Nov 17 h 86 2m. 17d. Luke Brattle Court Nov 7 1781